[mythtv-users] Distro

jack snodgrass mrlinuxgroups at gmail.com
Sat Oct 28 16:37:56 UTC 2006


On 10/28/06, John Schmitt <cromworshipper-mythtvlist at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Friday 27 October 2006 09:18, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
> > Wondering which distro is giving people the least frustrations. I
> > considered doing KoppMyth, but is this something I can easily change/
> > add to when required?
> >
> > Some background as to why I'm giving up on Fedora:
> > I was running FC4 for a long time with no problem until one day LVM
> > decided to trash my superblocks - yes, EVERY superblock on my disk.
> > All that work is now gone. So I tried FC5 on a new disk. Ran into
> > dependencies that couldn't be resolved. bind conflicted with some
> > other package and kept trying to re-download the 600MB of packages
> > every time I tried. After the 4th time of adding/removing packages to
> > solve dependencies, I gave up. Then I couldn't get nvidia driver to
> > load. No idea why. I was too frustrated to find out. So I go back to
> > FC4 and haven't been able to get yum upgrade to finish after 2.5 days
> > of trying. 403's, 404's, parser errors. Forget it. It's not worth it.

just my 2 cents.....

I've run Fedora FC3, FC4 and FC5. I've had issues every once in
a while with yum and rpms, but they have mostly been because I
am accessing freshrpms and livna repositorys and no one can
test their rpms against all of the possible repositories. I stopped
using atrpms because there were too many conflicts with atprms
and other rpms.

Every FCx release has gotten better. I have installed FC6 on one
of my boxes but haven't played with it much.

As far as LVM goes.... I just don't trust it. Anything  that will
kill 2TB of data because you loose one drive is bad. I much
prefer several large drives that are automounted. My 2TB
of drives are only mounted when needed. When they are
not used, the heads spin down. No noise, no heat. If the
system crashes, since they are not mounted, the file systems
are clean. Just can't see what the big love affair with LVM is.
I've got 6 drives in my NAS box and only one is mounted currently.
The other 5 drives are all napping peacfully till needed.

As far as rpm issues... things break. Sometimes you have to
do a rpm --force or rpm --nodeps or yum --exclude=... just
the nature of the beast. This will happen with any opensource
distribution where you have multiple people working on different
rpms. Learn to live with it and fix it and you'll be happy with no
matter what distribution you pick.

jack


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